Gade is playing with a broken rib and only reason he participates is the olympic ranking points. So I guess theres a risk he will pull out of the tourney or loose to a lesser skilled player. However he beated Chen Yu today which was quite surprising taking his current state in mind. Tine suffered from her accident with the anckle last sunday and hasnt recovered yet. So in my opinion it was the right choice for her to stay at home and recover for upcoming tournaments.
Agreed, Tine's staying out is a good choice, not only for her bad ankle, but so that CHN has less chance to dissect her game. She's now the top pick to topple CHN WS squad in Beijing ....... only Tine and Korea's Jun can match their power. The rest of the challengers rely on stamina and skills. How did Gade break his rib, Morten? Surely that's not a badminton injury.
LYB says, "You were not supposed to win Malaysian Open, as punishment, cannot participate in Korea!" ..........
hmmm - i think there is a stomsach bug going round - badmintonengland just says that gail emms felt unwell - perhaps a lot of the people who played in malaysia have come down with the same thing Hau-ge has got.. i suppose most will be making the journey to europe for the swiss open and all england - on top of that it's the english nationals early in feb, and most of english players turn out for that. get well soon everybody.
Gade has suffered from pneumonia after christmas and it appears it came from there. He says it hurts but it wont be worse when playing.
